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| Mission type | Long-duration expedition |
|---|---|
| Mission duration | 100 days, 8 hours, 11 minutes |
| Orbits completed | 3,248[1] |
| Expedition | |
| Space station | International Space Station |
| Began | 24 June 2019, 23:25:33 UTC[2][1] |
| Ended | 3 October 2019, 07:37:32 UTC[3][1] |
| Arrived aboard | Soyuz MS-12 Soyuz MS-13 |
| Departed aboard | Soyuz MS-12 Soyuz MS-13 Soyuz MS-15 |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 6 |
| Members |
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| EVAs | 1 |
| EVA duration | 6 hours, 32 minutes |
 Promotional Poster  Clockwise from top left:Ovchinin,Hague,Parmitano,Skvortsov,Morgan andKoch | |
Expedition 60 was the 60th Expedition to theInternational Space Station, which began on 24 June 2019 with the undocking of theSoyuz MS-11 spacecraft.[2] The expedition was commanded byAleksey Ovchinin, who transferred fromExpedition 59 together with American flight engineersNick Hague andChristina Koch.[4] They were joined byAleksandr Skvortsov,Luca Parmitano andAndrew Morgan, who arrived onSoyuz MS-13 on 20 July 2019. The expedition ended on 3 October 2019, whenSoyuz MS-12 (carrying Ovchinin, Hague, and spaceflight participantHazza Al Mansouri) undocked from the station and Koch, Skvortsov, Parmitano and Morgan transferred toExpedition 61.[5][3]
During this expedition's final days, the station residents totaled 9 individuals temporarily upon the arrival ofSoyuz MS-15, where for the first time since the departure ofSoyuz TMA-16M in September 2015, the ISS crew exceeded the standard six.[6]
| Position | First part (24 June – 20 July 2019) | Second part (20 July – 3 October 2019) |
|---|---|---|
| Commander |  Aleksey Ovchinin,RoscosmosSecond[a] spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer |  Nick Hague,NASAFirst[a] spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer | Christina Koch,NASA First spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer | Off Station | Aleksandr Skvortsov,Roscosmos Third spaceflight |
| Flight Engineer | Off Station |  Luca Parmitano,ESASecond spaceflight |
| Flight Engineer | Off Station | Andrew R. Morgan,NASA First spaceflight |
When Kononenko, Saint-Jacques and McClain return to Earth in late June, Ovchinin will take command of the space station, leading Expedition 60, and his crew will be increased to six-person strength in early July when Soyuz MS-13 and Skvortsov, Parmitano and Morgan arrive.
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